Charlie Bentley-Astor: How I Went Undercover to Protect University Events From Cancellation Mobs

University students have had to be smuggled into events and form secret societies to engage with ideas, according to Charlie Bentley-Astor. The writer, who graduated from the University of Cambridge last year, spoke to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme about her stint as a spy. According to Ms. Bentley-Astor, she observed in real time how activists knowingly trumped up charges against a college faculty that advertised an event she had organised so it would be scared into apologising. When a speaker who’s considered controversial by progressive activists is invited to a university, cancellation efforts would begin both publicly and in private chat rooms, Ms. Bentley-Astor said....